Sunday, 8 April 2012

Famous Bollywood Actresses

Famous Bollywood Actresses Biography
Preity Zinta is a well known face of the Indian film industry. She was born on the 31st of January in the year 1975 in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. She is one of the leading actresses of the Indian mainstream cinema
She was born in a Hindu Rajput family of Rohru in Simla. Earlier, she planned to pursue English Honors, but later she changed her mind and decided to study Psychology. She graduated from St. Bedes College. In the beginning, she worked as a model and also did quite a number of commercials. She comes from a defense background. Her father Durganand Zinta was an Indian army officer. Preity lost her father in a car accident, when she was only thirteen years old. Her mother was also severely injured. She also has two brothers Deepankar Zinta and Manish Zinta.

Helen Richardson Khan is a Bollywood dancer and actress of Anglo-Burmese extraction, best known for playing vamps and vixens in Bollywood movies of the 1960s and 70s. She was famous for her performances in flamboyant dance sequences and cabaret numbers. The Bollywood playback singer Asha Bhosle frequently sang for Helen. The 1999 documentary film, "Desperately Seeking Helen" by Eisha Marjara is an autobiographical tale of an immigrant experience in Canada. "Helen" is a reference to the dancer Helen and by extension, India's dream factory, Bollywood.

Nimmi had visited Bombay in her childhood, and her mother being on good terms with Mehboob Khan and his family. Through the connection with her mother who had worked with him in the 1930s, in 1948, the famous film director Mehboob Khan, invited the young Nimmi to watch the making of his current production Andaz at Central Studios Nimmi in Barsaat opposite Bollywood actor Prem Nath. Barsaatmade a history. It was a phenomenal critical and commercial success.

Mumtaz was born to Muslim father and mother Abdul Saleem Askari and Shadi Habib Agha in Bombay, India, on 31 July 1947. Mumtaz entered Hindi Cinema at very early when she was just 12Mumtaz started her career as extra and accepted small roles in big movies of 1960s. Slowly she became famous for her humour and charm and got main roles in few big movies of 1970s. In 1965 her first role as a vamp in movie Mere Sanam won her many appreciations.

Zarine Khan is an actress and model. Zarine started her acting career in 2010 with the film Veer, starring Salman Khan.